Description

Advocacy 301
Next Steps in System Change
Fighting for LTC Reform at the Michigan Capitol

Limits of Basic Advocacy
Laws are limits on change
Complaintsonly deal with rules violations
Risk of turning over your future to an Administrative Law Judge
Money is always scarce
Money always goes to stupid purposes
Money is always already committed to something else
Policies are never clear and true

What Else Can I Do?
Negotiation
Technology
Social Networking
How to Deal with Charisma and Power
Organizing our organizations
Strategy

Negotiation
Negotiate from values, not positions
Use mediation techniques
Don’t humiliate an opponent, ever, no matter how tempting
Don’t make decisions if you are afraid or angry-take a break and calm down.
Understand the meaning of BATNA
Precedent (control) and cost are the levers

Technology
Assistive Technology has great potential for ourCommunity
Get Broadband! And Learn Tech!
Useful computers are dropping below $300
Video conferencing is becoming very cheap and easy
Tech infrastructure is necessary for social networking

Charisma and Power
Double-Edged swords
Shared Attention: key organizing tool
Gossip and humor: power balancing tools
Art of Getting Things Done: People driven by
Power
Achievement
Affiliation
You need people driven by each and all

Organizing Our Organizations
Organizations are created and maintained by using tools of cooperation
The Tools of Cooperation fall into 4 categories:
Leadership
Culture
Management
Power
Which tools to use depends on consensus about:
Reality
Goals

Power Tools
Low consensus on reality and goals
Role definitions
Hiring and promotion
Fiat
Control systems
Threats
Coercion
Tools build consensus through Force

Separation into New organizations
Can’t reach a consensus on course of action
No one has the power to coerce cooperation
You need to divide the conflicted groups into separate organizations with high consensus in each group
Think of the separate organizations as different tools for dealing with future change, not different religions

The Future of OurOrganizations
Most are Driven by Culture right now
Common Training
Common beliefs about oppression
Common personal interests
Success will bring with it requirements for management tools
As resources and power accumulate, success will also bring conflicts over goals and reality

Responding to Cultural “Drift”
Re-engagement with oppression
Build management tool sets within ourcommunity
Acknowledge the right to “pass” as a form of separation
Accept and work with a diversityof organizations on the continuum of activism
Take an “Evolutionary” approach to change

Strategy
Four levels of Planning and Action:
Tactics: concrete accomplishment of local goal
Operations: integrated accomplishment of many tactical goals
Strategy: Overall Outcome
Grand Strategy: How our values and culture drive what we consider to be good Outcomes
We don’t get good at them in this order

Development of Strategy Skills
First we get good at Tactics
Then we run into a resource constraint, and have to come up with a strategy (very important and dangerous decision)
Then we integrate the strategy and our tactical skills to create operations
Grand Strategy is often unconscious and contains contradictions

Tools of Strategy
First Develop Consensus Around Vision!!!
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
These days, keep it down to one to two years

Scenario Planning and strategy
Develop Possible Futures
Best Future under current circumstances
Worst Future under current circumstance
Oddest Future under current circumstances
These are NOT predictions, but possibilities
Build your strategy so you do well under all three
As change occurs, tweak scenarios and strategy

The Strategic conversation
Talk about your future a lot
Don’t fall into the trap of believing that the organizations most like you are your competitors. Your competitors are those with very different values from you who are using scarce funds for other goals
Everyone scans the environment for information useful to your organization

Soul Resources
Two sides of the advocacy coin:
Fire: Being a warrior
Spirit: Being a saint
Your quality as an advocate will depend on how well you integrate these two very different people in your one personality
Two books to help:
The 33 Strategies of War
Nonprofit Stewardship
Only You can integrate these capabilities

Web Resources
Telling your story can be powerful advocacy:http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools
Maps can be powerful communication tools:http://www.policymap.com/map
Free High End Project Manager:http://gantter.com/
All Things Business, Change, Information, etc.:http://www.brint.com/

Final Thoughts
&quot;An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.“- Victor Hugo
&quot;Real change always entails the redistribution of power.&quot;- Peter Block
&quot;You&apos;ve got to think about &quot;big things&quot; while you&apos;re doing small things so the small things go in the right direction.&quot;- Alvin Toffler
&quot;Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”- Abraham Lincoln

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